Plain Words

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Plain Words is a style guide for British English written in 1948 by Sir Ernest Gowers, and expanded and reissued in 1954 as The Complete Plain Words (ISBN 0140511997).

It was revised by Sir Bruce Fraser in 1973, and by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut in 1986 (ISBN 0117011215).

See also

• The Chicago Manual of Style
• The Elements of Style
• Fowler's Modern English Usage
• Hart's Rules

 

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